Engineering Culture from Zero to Scale

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Send us Fan Mail Engineering culture is a system: incentives, habits, standards, and how decisions get made when things break. On SphereCast, host Adin Heric sits down with Krzysztof Ras to explain how to design that system from zero – and evolve it through scale across the Middle East and China. Kris breaks down what “culture” really looks like before the first engineer is hired, how the first 100 days set long-term norms, and how leadership must shift as teams grow from a handful of builders into distributed organizations. In this episode, we cover: What “culture” means before the team even exists The first 100 days: what to prioritize (hiring, values, process, delivery) How culture is defined through daily behavior, not decks Speed vs.